Wednesday, 11 May 2016

5.12 describe the use of restriction enzyme to cut DNA at specific sites and ligase enzyme to join pieces of DNA together

Ligase enzymes are used to join together two pieces/strands of DNA, alternatively, the restriction enzyme cuts DNA at a specific point by recognizing the specific sequences of DNA.

NOTE: Two different bits of DNA that have been stuck together is known as recombinant DNA

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